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mi www l WM W. t. GONE. PROCESS 0F ELBCTRIGALLY' DEGOMPOBING APPLIOATION FILED 111111.16. 111/10r L-'IIIIIIIII io r'ne' ys Patented Dec.-12,"1911.

UNITED sTATEs PATENT ,oF-infila..4

WILLIAM II.. cou-n, orfcnrcac ILLINOIS',v AssIGN-oa To LAURAG. FIXE-ii,

ILLINOIS.

'or vCHIGAG'Q ,..1Roc'Essor vE'Iinc'ri'ucanmz DEGoMPosING FLuIDs.

'Beknoivn that 1,WIILIIM H. GONE, al

citizen..ofmtiieglUnitedI States' residing at,4

" Chicago, in the county of' Cook and State of Illinois, have-.invented a certain new and usefull ,Improvement inA Processes 'l of Elec? tricallylpecomposing Fluids,v of which the following is1 a specification.

Mv" invention relates to a process by Whichdiqui'ds majr be decomposed. into some of theirchemical constituents andthe latter i vbe withdrawn in solution or otherwise sepa-A rately. It-isillustrated in one of its appli cations iri,v connection Awith 4the, separation of vchlorin and sodium from sodium chlorid and I shall describe theprocess and illustrate the' same as applied to this particular USB.

The accompanying 'drawing presents a diagrammatic illustration of one form of apparatus whichniaybe used for niv-purpose, wherein A isa; closed tank containing the battle plates A1, A2, the plates A1 having 'near'.their tops the opieningsg-i. while the plat-esili2 have neartheirbottonis the open-- ings A?. The tank B communicates by vmeans of the pipeB.1L with one end of the tank`A., 'Whilev tanks D and C communicate With the other end of tank Abv means ot 'thepipes D1 and' C1 opening into adjacent chambers formed bv the bat'fie plates. The anode E' and cathode El are located respec.

vtively at opposite endsof the tank.

. tion of the flow of the liquid. and libera-tes at the anode and cathode respectively free chlorin and free sodium. The chlorin immediatelv goes into solution in the Water of the mixture. thus producing chlorin Water.

'The sodium also combines With the Water in t-he chamber Which contains the cathode and 'is carried off to the tank C. The chlorin Water is carried off through the pipe D1 to the tank D. When chlorin and sodiugi Y Y. Vspecnieationof Ietterratent.

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` electrol vtic action at the electrodes.

vserial Noi. 549,581.

` are liberated by electrolysis in a solution of ,Patented Dee. 11'2, 1911.

iva ter there is -a strong tendency for the `chlorin and sodium to again unite. forming sodium chlorid. This is prevented by having' two .exits for' the liquid, one immediately .adjacent the cathode'wherethe1sodium is liberated, t-he other intermediate said first f exit. andthe anode Where the chlorin is liberated. Thus'the liquid traveling through' the vtank A in the'direction ofthe vcathode is enabled to leave said tan-k carrying chloe rin in solution before having reached ithe l fpoint uhere vsodium is being liberated.

Some ofthe chlorin water is allowedto i pass over into the sodium chamber, there uniting with the sodium 'to form Sodium h vpochlorite. Thevrest of the chlorin Iva-ter will thenl pass out free from sodium, thus producing in the receiving tank D a solution of chlorin. The baille plates arev interposed in the tank in order to ret-ard the How .of

.liquid and give a longer path and one having a greater resista-nce to the' flow of the solution thus decreasing the rate of flow and giving opportunityv for a more complete The baffle plates nearthe cathode are intended also to prevent to as greatv an extent as possible the mingling of the Water carrying sodium with the Water carrying chlorin.

I claim:

l. The process of decomposing liquids which .consists in passing a currentof'electricit.;T through and in the same direction with a stream'thereof, and withdrawing the decomposed products from such stream at different points therealong,

Q. The process of decomposing a solution of sodium chlorid Which consists in passing a current of electricitji.-Y through andin the. same direction with a' stream thereof,v

and withdrawing the decomposed products from such streamat different points therealong.

3. The process of decomposing a solution 100 of sodium chlorid which consists in passing.. a current of. electricity through and in the same direction with a stream thereof, and withdrawing the chlorin compounds and the sodiuml compounds-from such stream 105 at different points therealong.

4. The process ofv decomposing liquids which consists in passing a current of electricity through and in the same direction with a vstream'- thereof; and withdrawing 110 the decomposed product sfrom such stream at different points therea-iong near the cathode end. y

5. The process of decomposing a solution of sodium chlorid Which consists in passing a current of electricity through and in the same directiol -With a stream thereof, and withdrawing the decomposed products from such stream at diferent points there along near the'izcathode. end.

' 6. Theprocess of decomposing a solution of sodium chlorid Whicli.consists in passing a current of electricity through and in the same direction With a' stream thereof, and.

stream at differentpoints therealong.

" tricity through and in the same direction 8. The process'of decomposing a solution of sodium chlorid which consists in passing a current of electricity through and in thc same direction with aretarded stream thereof and withdrawing t-h-e'decomposed prodpcts from such stream at different .points therealong.

9. The process of decomposing a solution 0f"'sodium chloridwhich consists in passing a current,v of electricity through and in the same direction with a .retarded 4stream thereof, andwithdrawing the chlorin compounds and the sodium compounds. from such stream at different points therealong.

10.l The which consists in passing'a current o'f elecprocess of decomposing liquids.

with a retarded stream thereof, and ivithdrawing the decomposed products from such stream at different points therealong near the cathode end.

11. The process of decomposing rsolution of sodium chlorid which consists ir passing a current of electricity through `-ncl in the same direction with a retarded stream thereof, and withdrawing the decomposed products from such stream at different points therealong near the cathode end.

1 2.. The process of decomposing a solution of sodium chlorid which consistsin passing a current' of electricity through and inthe same di-rection with a retarded stream thereof, and -withdrawing the chlorn compounds and the sodium compounds from such stream. at different lpoints therealong` near the cathode end.

13. TheV process of decomposing liquids which consists in passing currents of electricity through and in the same direction as the stream of'material'hetween electrodes electrode at each end thereof and then passlng a stream 'of the liquid through said eelland-then removing liquid from the cell at two separated points, both of said points locatedI between said electrodes. Signed at Chicago, Illinois, this 28th day' of February, A, D. 1910. i

'WILLIAM n. Cose.

`Witnesses :4

EDRA K. REYNOLDS, DONALD M. CARTER. 

